The Arrival. Shaun Tan.In silent, captivating illustrations, this wordless novel captures the displacement and awe that immigrants experience in a new country. 741.5994 Tan

Aya of Yop City.Marguerite Abouet (Artwork by Clement Oubrerie).In Africa’s Ivory Coast in the late 1970s, a case of question-able paternity fans the flames of activity in the community in this warm, vibrant, and funny story. 741.596 Abouet

It is 10 years since the last sighting of Batman. Gotham City is overrun with street gangs and decay. Miller reinvents Batman in this highly praised graphic novel. 741.5973 Miller.

Bone: one volume edition. Jeff Smith.
This light fantasy chronicles the adventures of the Bone cousins, who are swept up in an epic of royalty, dragons, and evil forces out to conquer humankind. 741.5973 Smith

An examination of individual, collective, and potential memory set in an open-ended story of a future society reeling from terrorist violence. 741.5959 Bilai

A Drifting Life. Yoshihiro Tatsumi.A comic artist’s memoir, from his childhood in post-war Osaka to his years struggling to succeed in the competitive manga market in 1950’s Japan. 741.5952 Tatsumi

Epileptic. David B.The French cartoonist's memoir of growing up in a family in which his brother's grand mal epilepsy regularly took center stage. 741.5944 B

Incognegro.Mat Johnson. (Artwork by Warren Pleece.)Based on real life Black journalists, Zane Pinchback, a.k.a. Incognegro, goes undercover as a white man in the South to investigate a murder charge against his brother. 741.5 Johnson

Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten cartoonist from the 1940s, but his obsession blinds him to the needs of his lover and the quiet desperation of his family. 741.5971 SethMaking Comics. Scott McCloud.

This comic isn't really about how to draw comics: it's about how to make drawings become a story and how cartooning choices communicate meaning to readers. 741.51 McCloud

A finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, this searing yet redemptive memoir depicts the author’s childhood, including a callous mother and two harrowing surgeries. B Small

Stuck Rubber Baby. Howard Cruse.Set in the South in the early '60s, the main character comes to terms with his homosexuality while simultaneously becoming involved in the civil rights movement. 741.5973 CruseUnderstanding Comics: the invisible art. Scott McCloud.McCloud explains how graphic storytelling works: how comics & graphic novels are composed and understood, getting to the heart of how we deal with visual languages. 741.5 McCloud